Beyond Demography : Dialogue with People

Contents: Foreword/K.N. Raj. Preface. Acknowledgements. I. Vulnerable people and places: 1. Demography of Himalayan villages: missing men and lonely women. 2. Ecology, economy and society in Himalayan villages. 3. Reaching the unreached in Uttarakhand: demography, drinking water and technology. 4. Are natural disasters manmade? 5. From population to pests in Punjab: American Boll Worm and suicides in Cotton Belt. 6. Fighting female foeticide: growing greed and shrinking child sex ratio. 7. Curbing female foeticide: doctors, governments and civil society ensure failure. 8. Empowerment of women: how and when? 9. Rajasthan: stalling the March of Thar desert Army's eco-Battalion at work. 10. Malaria deaths in Rajasthan Desert. 11. Hunger-free India by 2007: need for evergreen revolution. II. Census 2001: 12. Beyond a headcount: preparing for census of 2001. 13. Census in snowbound areas. 14. Census of India 2001 and after. 15. Census goldmine: dissemination of 2001 data. 16. North-south divide in India's demographic scene. 17. Consumer demographics: people's assets in census 2001. 18. Beyond Hindu-Muslim growth rates: understanding socio-economic reality. III. Data and research: 19. Population data 'Mela': dissemination before assimilation. Epilogue: market demography. 20. Demographic data: overflow and non-utilisation. 21. Population research: deteriorating scholarship. 22. National population policy 2000 Swaminathan to Shanmugham. 23. HDRs: some reflections. IV. International vignettes: 24. Towards gender-sensitive population census: reflections from Kathmandu. 25. Health for all by 2000: broken promises. 26. Migrant women workers: victims of cross-border sex "Terrorism' in Asia. 27. Afghan refugees in India. 28. Zeroing in on ground zero: Trauma of September 11. 29. South-South solidarity: reflections from Kathmandu. 30. Dreams, dollars and dot.com reflections from a ranch. 31. Do demographers have a future? Meandering through demography in Morocco. 32. Revisiting ground zero. Book review. Index.

"This volume is a tribute to the late Krishna Raj, the celebrated editor of Economic and Political Weekly. It brings together contributions of the author on a wide range of topics published in EPW during the last five years. It combines analysis of census data with reality check based on the author's field work all over India. It also gives a glimpse of international conferences and seminars which the author attended." (jacket)